"A conversation took place between the leader and a scholar Jafar Sadiq and an avowed Atheist. Jafar asked the person "Have you ever travelled in the sea?" "Yes." "Have you experienced its terrors?" "Yes indeed!! One day while we were out at sea, a terrible hurricane blew up and smashed our ship. Several sailors perished. I clung to a raft of the ship but it was soon snatched away. I was thrown about in the stormy sea but eventually was tossed up on the shore." "When the storm broke," jafar commented,” Perhaps you first relied on the ship and the sailors for your safety and then on the raft which saved you for a while. But when all this went, did you resign yourself to death or did you still hope for safety?” “I hoped for safety. “On whom did you hope for safety?” The man was silent and jafar said: "The creator is the one on whom you placed your hopes at that time. And He is the one who delivered you from drowning.” After this conversation, the atheist was no longer an atheist."
Time and again I have thought about God and religion and the more I think about it, the mystery deepens up more. I have found out myself to be a "part atheist and part religious”. The atheist part of me has a story.
One day God was getting bored, he had nothing to do, no companion, no work and he was kinda bored to death. So he thought "Why not create something?” He created the Universe, the earth, water, nature, animals and everything beautiful. He was kinda amazed at his stunning creation. He applauded himself of his great powers and thought this would be a great time pass. The days passed, and he saw life on earth and every other thing in motion, it was fun in the beginning seeing all the things working according to his wishes. But the revolving earth, twinkling stars, sparkling water, lush green nature, living animals could not amuse him for long. So, he once again came back to his thinking table and this time thought of something interesting, something that could keep him busy, something that could make him so important that he would feel his worth everyday, every hour, every minute and every passing second.
He created HUMANS, and he created them in pairs, just like every other living being. He gave them FREEWILL and asked them to rule the Earth. Since then, every moment of his is engrossed in enjoying this big GAME. He sees them in happiness, he sees them in pain. They have been ambitious, lazy, defying the things that he created as impossible. They have been praying to him and making him feel great. They have been denying his existence. They have a large chunk of brain which gives them ideas and thoughts. To confuse their further unexplained life, he created different religions and created the concept of good and sin. They have been fighting, killing over religions and land. All the things that they enjoy have been classified into sin. All the good they do is for the fear of God or for enjoying the Heavens after death. The GAME has been going good and he knows that every single life that he created is screwed; they can only crave to achieve that state of Happiness but always be too far from it. Until the day they perish.
The religious part of me believes in "LA ILAHA ILL ALLAH" (There is no god only Allah).I believe in One God. That there would be a last day of judgment and there would be life after death. I have been trying to live by the ways of Islam.
But the confused "Me" still continues...........
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